Night one of pageantry is over, and while two nights still remain, it came with it's own exciting finale (like a season of Lost or something). At the end of each night, they award trophies to the winners of Best Talent and Best Lifestyle and Fitness in Swimsuit... And I came home with a trophy! Yes, though my outfit choice was deemed unorthodox by some, I brought home the Best Swimsuit Trophy for the night! Okay, yes, I was bringing it home for Sarah who won it last night. Tonight, she'll be competing in talent and on-stage interview, so be sure to send good thoughts her way!
In the meantime, as the Hoovers get further across the banner (what will happen when they reach their destination tomorrow?) we dive further into the web world of pageantry. Entertainment Weekly put together a list of their top beauty pageant movies, adding eight more to the two we covered yesterday. I've only ever heard of To Wong Foo... and I Know What You Did Last Summer, but Happy, Texas sounds worth tossing on the Netflix queue. It's worth noting that the movies are presented in chronological order, though I would argue that results in saving the best for last. But Little Miss Sunshine came out in 2006. Where have the big screen queens of the pageant world been since then?
The answer: The screen has shrunk and so have the queens. TLC's terrifying hit series Toddlers & Tiaras premiered in January 2009 and is now in its fifth season. While I haven't seen a single episode, the ads have been enough to tell me what it's about (parents play competitive dress-up with real live human children!) and that I never want to watch a full episode. Curious as I am to find out if six year old Catlyn does indeed grow up to be a "princes in a big castle," I don't have the patience to stick around for the full series to find out. Then, of course, there's the ubiquitous spin-off Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which follows one contestant and her family in the world outside of pageantry. Again, I'm not watching, but one promo clip of Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson from the original series suggests inspiration from a scene of legendary drunk dancing prowess from a TV show I actually watch. (Jump to the 55 second mark of the Honey Boo Boo clip to see what I mean. Seriously. Check it out. It's uncanny.)
More adorable and less terrifying than all of those toddlers and their tiaras, though, comes from my new favorite Twitter account, @MyRabbitGotSwag. A series of photos of a rabbit with stuff on it, this account picked up 100,000 followers like it was nothing. Bunny Boo Boo in her (his?) tiara is the most relevant for today's events, but Pocahontas on the lookout is my favorite.
That's all for today! We'll be back tomorrow with the results of Day 2, a preview of Day 3, and more things that are somehow tangentially related a little bit to pageants. For now, it's time to start pushing the van again. (Gotta remember to park that thing on a hill.)
"No one gets left behind! No one gets left behind! Outstanding, soldier, outstanding!" - Steve Carell as Frank in Little Miss Sunshine
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